Mr. Walsh, the officials said, appeared to be moving quickly to begin his investigation and had already tentatively selected several lawyers to serve as his assistants.

That location was tentatively selected by a team of Soviet and American planners who examined several sites, they said.

He was referring to cost estimates by DeLuxe Development of New York, the Pennsylvania firm tentatively selected to build the first units of subsidized housing.

Eisenhower had tentatively selected 5 June as the date for the assault.

The cities tentatively selected to feature the new program are New York, Baltimore, Houston, Denver, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Officials from the international consortium say they have tentatively selected a site for the two reactors: Shinbo, a city on North Korea's northeast coast.

"The Drawing Center is only tentatively selected, and they don't have any contractual rights," Mr. Catalfamo said of the center's claims on space at ground zero.

The Norwalk River Watershed Initiative has been tentatively selected to receive additional funding under the Federal Clean water Act.

But he has been tentatively selected for another position in the Bush administration, chief policy analyst at the Department of Health and Human Services.

(The Nieman program has not announced its 2009-10 fellows yet, but Mr. Giles gave a breakdown of the backgrounds of those who have been tentatively selected.)